Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: crypt BS? Message-ID: <3798@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 31 Jul 90 17:53:51 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 18 >What kind of chowder-headed BS is this? It's not like the >commies couldn't have gotten it 57 zillion time in the past. You're dealing with government bureaucrats; chowder-headed BS is their specialty. I mean, really, it's based on a frigging *German* encryption machine, which was broken by the *British* during WW2... but no, it's *encryption technology*, which means it's *munitions*, so you have to screw around with export licenses. >(And still can from a "standard" Unix implementation, read SunOS) Sun doesn't ship that stuff abroad, either.... >Is this only happening to me because I work at Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope >Corp (a non-profit US company, with a foreign sounding name)? Could be. You might want to check whether you got a domestic HP-UX release....